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Inside and Out: Full-time School for Only Half the Kids at St. Charles
Posted 3.16.10 by Rob Wildeboer

Photo by Carlos Javier Ortiz
All this week we're resuming our series on juvenile justice, Inside and Out.

Today, half of the high school-aged kids locked up at the St. Charles youth prison west of Chicago are not getting full-time classes because there aren't enough teachers.

Listen to this and more from the series.


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